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SEPTEMBER, 1908.]
SOME ANGLO-INDIAN WORTHIES.
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SOME ANGLO-INDIAN WORTHIES OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.
BY LAVINIA MARY ANSTEY.
No. III.
AMBROSE SALISBURY.
(Continued from p. 227.)
From this time until his re-instatement in the Company's service, in 1672, Salisbury remained at Peddapalle and conducted the Company's. investments in much the same way as before, at the same time, no doubt, carrying on a profitable trade for himself. The correspondence between Salisbury at Peddapalle and Mohun and the Council at Masulipatam, from 1670 to 1672, on the subject of Saltpetre, the dyeing of Ginghams, etc., is complete and tells its own story.
"Melchlepatam Generall to Pettepolee.
Mr Ambrose Salisbury, Being ordered by our Masters to send them 50 peices of Ginghams dyed red, which wee Suppose are for an experiment, they being soe small a quantity, and to bee in a readiness against the returne of their Shipps from the Bay, which wee presume will bee early in the month of December, if not before, you may remember upon your departare hence,73 wee did then . make it our request unto you that you would undertake the getting of it done at Pettepolee, it being the onely place in these parts for dying that Colour, which wee now againe desire, and that they may bee dyed a very good red, and with what possible speed they may bee. Wee endeavoured their getting done at Maddapollam? where wee provided the Cloth, but the people there not being accustomed to that Colour, would not undertake it. The Cloth wee have some dayes since ordered to bee sent you from thence directly, which wee hope will arrive soe tymely as that you may Seasonably gett it finished. Wee desire you would pardon the trouble which from us is unwillingly imposed upon you by Your loving friends to serve you, W. LANGHORNE; RICHARD MOHUN; JOSEPH HYNMERS.
Metcklepatam, the 28th October, 1670."75
"Metchlepatam Generall to Pettepotes.
Mr Salusbury, Sir, this day was received yours of the 3d Current, which gives us an account of your reception of our Generall, wherein wee desired you would take care for the dying of fifty peices of Ginghams for the account of our Masters, which wee had then ordered to bee sent from Maddapollam, and is, as wee finde by Mr Hopkins's and Fields last Letter unto us, accordingly done. Wee accept of your readiness in the preparation you have already made with the Dyers for the more speedy finishing, and returne you our thancks, desireing you will excuse the trouble wee have given you and, according unto your desire, have sent you Eighty Eight Pagos. which, at the rate that you informe us they will stand the Company in, or neare it, being one Pago, and three quarters per peice, is Eighty Seaven and a halfe. Wee intreate your care in the goodness of the Colour, and that you will gett them dyed as Cheape as you can, in both which you Will doe your Selfe noe disservice, since you know whoes Concernes they are and alsoe oblidge us to continue Your reall friends to serve you, W. LANGHORNE; RICHARD MOHUN; JOSEPH HYNMERS..
Wee have alsoe sent you according to your desire six yards of red broad cloth.77
Metchlepatam, the 5th November, 1670."
1 An Indian cotton cloth, generally striped, see ante, Vol. XXIX., p. 339.
73 There is no note of Salisbury's visit to Masulipatam in 1370, but it was probably then that Langhorne enquired into his ease and formed a favourable estimate of his character.
14 Maddapollam (Madhavayapalem) factory, a settlement of the Company, subordinate to Masulipatam, was a depôt for cotton cloths, also a place for ship-building and a health resort.
15 Factory Records, Masulipatam, Vol. 5.
This letter does not exist.
TT Factory Records, Masulipulam, Vol. 5
